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TikTok Is Destroying Itself From the Inside Out (gizmodo.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 230 points 2 years ago* (29 children)

Some irony there. Tik Tok wants to be more like Youtube with its long form content. Youtube wants to be more like Tik Tok with its shorts content.

Neither seems to be winning the opposing battle.

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  • [–] 109 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Fucking YouTube shorts.

    Every content creator has to partake in the stupidity because it's that or becoming an algorithm outcast, so they awkwardly cut bits of their videos just to post a couple of those.

    And then YouTube forces them in everyone's throat, with absolutely no regard for the medium and no option to filter them out.

    No, YouTube, I won't watch your stupidly formatted 10-second bits of nothing on my TV.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I'm so done with shorts I've added the whole shorts element to my adblocker.. you can't select the seeker bar in shorts, you can't autoscroll lol literally a retarded copy of tiktok with zero user experience functionalities

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    You can select it on mobile but it's super god damn glitchy and infuriating. I wouldn't mind shorts when they're helpful and jump straight to the point of how to fix/do something I'm looking up if it weren't for the garbage seeker bar.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    If you need to you can always replace the shorts part in the url with watch to get the normal interface back.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The best is when it's a video shot in landscape that has been letterboxed to fit a phone screen and then pillarboxed to fit a TV screen, so the net result is a video that could fill the whole screen being displayed inside a tiny rectangle in the middle.

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  • [–] 59 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    We need a TikTube apparently.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    does....does the tiktube go inside you?

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    If the companies had their way, it would go directly in to your brain

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Well youtube has both.

    And I hope the long form videos take some sort video cues and don't have 3 minute long rambling intros anymore. The one nice things about shorts is they get to the point.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Short-form videos are basically a form of cancer that keeps you alive with shots of dopamine every 15-30 seconds. I avoid those things like the plague.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Why is youtube capping to that small time frame. Even most tiktok videos are like 2 minutes long minimum. Maybe that's just the algorithm working for me, because I refuse to invest my attention in anything with that low of an information payoff.

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